DreamLabs
DreamLabs
[Who we are]
Emeryville companies, from biotech firms to media and consumer brands, partner with our team to build custom iOS and Android apps using senior engineers and AI-accelerated development.
★★★★★
“Other app developer quoted 10X the price to create a live testable version. DreamLabs pricing structure has meant we can quickly get the app in users hands and see what they think!”
Jenn Brooks · Founder & CEO @ Nurture
As a fractional product team, we start by defining your vision and sharpening your strategy. We don’t just say “yes,” but always ask “why?”, helping your dev budget go further and faster.
We use AI-accelerated development to help teams of all sizes launch custom, scale-ready digital products. Ship in days/weeks, not months/years.
User testing is a bonus service we offer to all clients for free. This means we learn together from real users with each release.
[What We Do]
Our development process for Emeryville clients pairs AI-assisted architecture, implementation, and testing with direct senior engineering oversight at every stage, across iOS and Android. That combination lets us deliver production-grade mobile applications on a timeline that manual, platform-by-platform development can't match. We move from requirements to a working prototype quickly, then iterate with you in short, transparent cycles. Continuous integration and automated testing run throughout the build, so we catch issues early rather than at the end of a long development phase, and we treat both platforms as first-class rather than porting one to the other after the fact. Emeryville clients tend to operate in industries, biotech, media, consumer products, where data handling and platform-specific polish both matter, and we build for that combination, using AI to accelerate the parts of development that benefit from it while keeping senior engineers accountable for architecture, security, and performance across the whole build.
[Deliverables]
Native iOS and Android applications built for Emeryville businesses by senior engineers using AI-accelerated development. We deliver high-performance, scalable apps optimized for the specific demands of your product and market, from architecture through launch on both app stores. That includes setting up crash reporting and analytics from day one, so you have real usage data to guide the next round of feature work.
Cross-platform mobile app development tailored to Emeryville's fast-moving business landscape, built from a single AI-accelerated codebase where that's the right fit for your product. Our AI-enabled process shortens the build cycle while our engineers stay hands-on with architecture, code quality, and long-term maintainability. Where an existing system lacks a clean API, we build the connective layer needed rather than asking you to rebuild your backend around us.
Enterprise mobile development for Emeryville companies that need robust integration with existing systems and infrastructure, across iOS, Android, or both. AI-assisted implementation speeds up delivery while senior engineers retain full ownership of security and performance. Accessibility gets built in from the start, not retrofitted later, so the app works well for the full range of people using it.
[FAQs]
You get a team that moves at the pace Emeryville companies expect, using AI-enabled development to deliver production-quality iOS and Android apps for around $20,000 in about 6 weeks, well under the roughly $200,000 and 6-month timeline typical of a traditional, platform-by-platform build. That estimate holds for most projects of typical scope; more complex builds are priced accordingly during discovery.
Prototypes start at $6,000 and full MVPs at $15,000. Costs vary by scope, but a typical AI-enabled cross-platform build runs around $20,000 all-in, compared to the roughly $200,000 some agencies charge for comparable work across iOS and Android using a fully manual development process. That estimate holds for most projects of typical scope; more complex builds are priced accordingly during discovery.
We start with discovery to define requirements and platform strategy, then move into AI-assisted architecture and prototyping, followed by iterative development with your feedback built into each cycle. Senior engineers review everything that ships to either platform, and typical projects complete in around 6 weeks for roughly $20,000.
A template-based platform caps what your product can become the moment your requirements outgrow it, which happens quickly for companies moving as fast as most in Emeryville. Custom development, made efficient by AI-enabled engineering, gives you full control over the experience on both iOS and Android and room to scale, at a cost now much closer to the template option.
[01] Product Strategy
We start by helping you define your long and short-term product visions. We then break down the concepts into concrete features and functions, so we can piece them back together into a prioritized roadmap.
[02] Development
With the framework pinned down, we go heads-down on execution. We leverage AI-powered tooling and a modern Flutter + Firebase stack to develop your product in record time.
[03] Polishing + Launch QA
Your finished product to ensure that each feature works seamlessly, every color is precise and all copy is ready for publication. We then manage the entire app publishing process on mobile, web or both.
